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.IX Title "WWW::Mechanize::Link 3pm"
.TH WWW::Mechanize::Link 3pm 2024-02-04 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
WWW::Mechanize::Link \- Link object for WWW::Mechanize
.SH VERSION
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 2.18
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
Link object to encapsulate all the stuff that Mech needs but nobody
wants to deal with as an array.
.SH Constructor
.IX Header "Constructor"
.SS \fBnew()\fP
.IX Subsection "new()"
.Vb 8
\&    my $link = WWW::Mechanize::Link\->new( {
\&        url  => $url,
\&        text => $text,
\&        name => $name,
\&        tag  => $tag,
\&        base => $base,
\&        attr => $attr_href,
\&    } );
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For compatibility, this older interface is also supported:
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.Vb 1
\& new( $url, $text, $name, $tag, $base, $attr_href )
.Ve
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Creates and returns a new \f(CW\*(C`WWW::Mechanize::Link\*(C'\fR object.
.SH Accessors
.IX Header "Accessors"
.ie n .SS $link\->\fBurl()\fP
.el .SS \f(CW$link\fP\->\fBurl()\fP
.IX Subsection "$link->url()"
URL from the link
.ie n .SS $link\->\fBtext()\fP
.el .SS \f(CW$link\fP\->\fBtext()\fP
.IX Subsection "$link->text()"
Text of the link
.ie n .SS $link\->\fBname()\fP
.el .SS \f(CW$link\fP\->\fBname()\fP
.IX Subsection "$link->name()"
NAME attribute from the source tag, if any.
.ie n .SS $link\->\fBtag()\fP
.el .SS \f(CW$link\fP\->\fBtag()\fP
.IX Subsection "$link->tag()"
Tag name (one of: "a", "area", "frame", "iframe" or "meta").
.ie n .SS $link\->\fBbase()\fP
.el .SS \f(CW$link\fP\->\fBbase()\fP
.IX Subsection "$link->base()"
Base URL to which the links are relative.
.ie n .SS $link\->\fBattrs()\fP
.el .SS \f(CW$link\fP\->\fBattrs()\fP
.IX Subsection "$link->attrs()"
Returns hash ref of all the attributes and attribute values in the tag.
.ie n .SS $link\->\fBURI()\fP
.el .SS \f(CW$link\fP\->\fBURI()\fP
.IX Subsection "$link->URI()"
Returns the URL as a URI::URL object.
.ie n .SS $link\->\fBurl_abs()\fP
.el .SS \f(CW$link\fP\->\fBurl_abs()\fP
.IX Subsection "$link->url_abs()"
Returns a URI::URL object for the absolute form of the string.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
WWW::Mechanize and WWW::Mechanize::Image
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Andy Lester.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.